“When we had our last board meeting of the fiscal year on Jan. 10 everything was as normal, nothing out of the ordinary,” Denton Tumbelson, a board member of Child Development Inc. members of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee.

Tumbelson said the CDI board learned of the agency’s budget shortfall the next day when the fiscal officer said a loan of $394,000 was needed to make payroll for the month.